David Halberstam was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and historian, known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism. Halberstam was raised in Yonkers, New York and, earlier, had lived in Winsted, Connecticut . In 1955, he graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor of arts, and he served as managing editor of The Harvard Crimson. Halberstam's journalism career began at the Daily Times Leader, the smallest daily newspaper in Mississippi. He... covered the beginnings of the American Civil Rights Movement for The Tennessean in Nashville. Halberstam arrived in Vietnam in the middle of 1962, to be a full-time Vietnam specialist for The New York Times. Halberstam, like many other US journalists covering Vietnam, relied heavily for information on Pham Xuan An, who was later revealed to be a secret North Vietnamese agent.
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